Does anyone seriously think it’s about rockets?

What if Hamas dumped all their rockets in the sea tomorrow? Would the illegal blockade be lifted? Would Gazans enjoy the same freedoms as other nations? Would their democratically elected government be allowed to get on and govern? Would they be able to open their sea port to foreign ships and rebuild and operate their airport? Would they be able to import and export and carry on trade and develop their economy and prosper like other countries?

These words are printed on a tee-shirt I sometimes wear. They cut through the propaganda crap straight to the true cause of the latest unpleasantness in Gaza.

BBC Newswatch host Samira Ahmed. The BBC programme, dedicated to viewer feedback.This morning (Sunday) the BBC continued its descent into the journalistic cesspit, pushing the Israeli line on the atrocities being committed in the Holy Land. You only needed to see BBC1's 'Sunday Morning LIve' which matched an incoherent Palestinian newspaperman against Charlie Wolf, an obnoxious import from Boston USA. Nobody touched on the underlying causes, not even the presenter Samira Ahmed. It was ignorant and shambolic, yet on the basis of this encounter viewers were invited to vote whether the Israeli bombing was justified.

According to Wiki, Wolf during his talkSPORT show in 2005 described Rachel Corrie (the American activist murdered by an Israeli military bulldozer in Gaza) as "scum." OFCOM ruled his remark was in breach of the "Generally Accepted Standards" section of the Broadcasting Code and said it was "seriously ill-judged".

CHARLIE WOLFWhy would the BBC hire such a offensive pillock if it intended to provide a reasoned and balance debate? I certainly object to having the likes of Wolf beamed into my home on a Sunday morning, or any other morning, by our fee-snatching national broadcaster.

I hear that when the poll result was announced 56% voted "No" and 44% "Yes" to the question "Are Israeli military actions justified?". The programme's website now statesthe results "are not available to the public at this time". The plot thickens…

An earlier BBC1 offering this morning, the Andrew Marr Show, had General Mike Jackson calling Hamas what they actually are – guerrillas(A member of an irregular, usually indigenous military or paramilitary unit operating in small bands in occupied territory to harass and undermine the enemy, as by surprise raids). He deliberately avoided the well-worn and inaccurate propaganda slurs such as "militants" and "terrorists". If you call them that, what names are left for the Israelis? I wonder if he'll get his knuckles rapped…

Marr made his leanings clear by saying: "From a military perspective people have to remember how small Israel is and how open to rocket attack…" without mentioning Gaza's much greater vulnerability by not only being tiny, impoverished and overflowing but having no military to speak of at all.

Israel wants the entire Holy Land and Gaza’s gas

Throughout the latest crisis western leaders, news readers, chat-show hosts and assorted pundits have focused on the "thousands" of rockets fired by Hamas.

White House Press Secretary Jay Carney is reported as saying: “There is no justification for the violence that Hamas and other terrorist organizations are employing against the people of Israel. We call on those responsible to stop these cowardly acts immediately in order to allow the situation to deescalate.”

Cowardly acts?Who is the coward? Israel, which uses sophisticated state-of-the-art weaponry (courtesy of the US taxpayer) to relentlessly attack an unarmed, half-starved and densely packed population who have nowhere to run because their borders have been sealed 24/7 for 6 years, or the Gaza's guerrillas who fight back with anything that comes to hand including garden-shed rockets?

What if Hamas dumped all their rockets in the sea tomorrow? Would the illegal blockade be lifted? Would Gazans enjoy the same freedoms as other nations? Would their democratically elected government be allowed to get on and govern? Would they be able to open their sea port to foreign ships and rebuild and operate their airport? Would they be able to import and export and carry on trade and develop their economy and prosper like other countries?

Would they be allowed to develop and benefit from their offshore gas field? Would their fishermen be allowed to fish in unpolluted waters? Would their young people be able to come and go and take up places at foreign universities?

Would Israel clear out of Gaza’s airspace permanently? Would the Israeli navy cease its piracy and stay out of Palestinian territorial waters? Would you and I be able to visit Gaza direct?

Fat chance. None of this would suit Israel. So Palestinians would be no better off.

Remember, there are no rockets coming out of the West Bank. Yet the illegal Israeli occupation there continues and so does the ethnic cleansing, the land theft, the illegal settlements, the colonization, the demolition of Palestinian homes, the throttling of the economy, the abduction and 'administrative detention' of civilians and the massive interference with freedom of movement. Nothing has changed for West Bank Palestinians who DO NOT FIRE ROCKETS. And there is no sign of an end to their torment.

The bloody assault on Gaza therefore has much more to do with Israel's ambition to expand racial dominance in the Holy Land, make their occupation permanent and seize Gaza’s offshore gas field than the paltry damage from crude and erratic rocket-fire. The Palestinians holed up in Gaza are simply in the way of the Grand Plan and have to be removed or totally subdued. This was the case 4 years ago when Israel launched Operation Cast Lead after staging the same sort of provocation as they did last week.

Elie YishaiIsrael's deputy prime minister Eli Yishai let the cat out of the bag when he said of the latest military operation:

"The goal of the operation is to send Gaza back to the Middle Ages. Only then will Israel be calm for forty years."

He is also reported as saying: “We must blow Gaza back to the Middle Ages destroying all infrastructure including roads & water.”

If he carries it out he’ll have written his arrest warrant for mega war crimes. Obama, Cameron and Hague actually pledge support for this maniac and his loathsome pals Netanyahu and Barak, implicating us in their foul crimes. I'd like to subject Obama, Cameron and Hague – and their families,for bombing engulfs women and children also -- to just one night of the London blitz and see how they like it. London at least had defences, functioning emergency services and an extensive subway network. Gazans don't. And Gazans have had to put up with raids night after night for years on end.

Actually I’d like to include the entire United Nations Security Council in that experience, also its useless worm of a secretary-general.

Editor’s note: A compelling video by Anthony Lawson which indicts Israel for its daily abuses against Palestinians and the horrors it has inflicted on Gaza and which it continues to inflict through its illegal and genocidal siege against the devastated and overpopulated strip of land, with the support of the US and European Governments and the complicity of the Zionist owned Media :

Stuart Littlewood's articles are published widely on the web. He is author of the book Radio Free Palestine, which tells the plight of the Palestinians under occupation. For further information please visit www.radiofreepalestine.org.uk "Lawlessness must have painful consequences for the lawless, not their victims." (Stuart Littlewood)

Yes, I seriously think if the Palestinians adopted a program of passive resistance rather than retaliation their cause would be more legitimate. Had Hamas not shot a few pathetic rockets which blew some holes in a few Istaeli homes, the Israeli act of assassination of Ahmed al-Jabari would have been widely condemned. But the Likud fascists know that the Hamas fascists will retaliate.

Jabari was negotiating a ceasefire when he was killed. The Egyptians were mediating and it got to the point where Hamas were given Israeli demands for a ceasefire. They murdered him instead. So much for Israeli peace.

To expect Hamas not to offer resistance, pathetic though it might be, is not realistic. The Gazans are within their rights , as victims of a ruthless, crushing occcupation, to resist. And that includes firing rockets. And remember, Hezbollah actually defeated Israel in Lebanon in 2000 and 2006. Hamas is not Hezbollah, but the Israelis are insane psychopathic murderers and the Gazans should be supported for their puny efforts to resist these monstrous zionist war crimes. You are wrong to criticize them for resisting. They have the legal right to do so and justice loving people ought to support them.

I differ in a minor way with Stuart. I consider that the rockets, troop border assemblies, etc., are there for Netanyahu to allow the US to have a level of anxiety for the region, to use as a bargaining chip, the ultimate goal still being Iran.

So how about this as a scenario.(I am even thinking like an Isaeli). Yes, President Obama and Netanyahu are both engaged in phone calls, going something like this……. Israel : “ Well we are going to attack, Mr. President, because we are tired of being threatened. After all, we have done nothing to make the Arabs do this, as well you know. Cared for them for 60 years as well you know” President Obama: “ What do we need to do to keep your troops on your side of the border other than a regular payment of 3 billion dollars ? After all, we have a vested interest in that geography as well. Oil, and maintaining our bases in your region”

Israel : “ We do need all of Palestine to become Greater Israel as we discussed many times agreed to by your supportive Secretary of State. She is one of us, as well you know. But we do need your approval to attack Iran, sooner rather than later. We do not need any country, particularly an Arab country to have more talent than we do. We need to know that you will use your veto as you have done so many times before, to ensure that no one upsets that plan and that Russia and China are brought off with some compromise.

After all compromise is your strong suit, right Mr President?

President Obama: “ I will need to think on this and there seems to be no one in the military that I can talk to these days, all being somewhat busy with extraneous activities. However, if you can keep your bombing down to a minimum, avoiding the phosphorous we gave you and which was so effective the last time you used it, a couple of weeks will be all I need to figure out a way to comply with your wishes, once again. I will use the CIA and help you with one of the 19 false flag scenarios you have devised, all of which are terribly clever. Your Mossad boys have learnt their trade well. How’s that?.

Israel : Fine, we’ll keep it bubbling away as we have done before as it makes the world then realise when we finally pull back that the problem has been averted. But we would like to have some practice on Gaza if that’s OK. Got to keep the Palestinians guessing. Then on with the Iran ‘big one’ when the best false flag situation can be identified. Can’t wait for that one, with your approval, of course. By the way, I will never understand why the Palestinians think that anyone is interested in those rockets just to gain some recognition for their plight. No one has cared for 60 years. The world stopped thinking about Palestine a long time ago after you effectively nobbled the UN.

That veto is a great tool, Mr. President and as we all know, European countries and the timid British are now under our ‘influence’ . Cameron was a pushover with Hague doing the hard yards and in Australia, Gillard and Carr tow the line, have done for years. They have always been a pushover. A nanny country as you know. But we did help to get them into the Security Council for a year or two. By the way…not a word to the one newspaper in the world that we don’t control, please, as we have a bid in for that one as well. They’ll sell. Rothschilds have the mortgage. (chuckle) President Obama: OK Prime Minister. You’re as well organised as ever.

Even Gilad Atzmon is just a pawn to the fau-Hebrews of Zion. Whether he possesses secret knowledge of the service he performs or is truly guileless, his function is to severely restrict the outer limit of (Goyim and "apostate" Jewish) opposition as it is expressed against global Zionism's cultural synthesis.
As an encorporated Messiah, the architects of a "New Jerusalem" will — given the exclusive purpose of its own self-established identity as to what it defines as human — completely annihilate (in due time) all other "unchosen" human stock on Earth.
For the religiously insane tyrants of war-crook Israel, their founding goal encompasses Zionland's Samson Edict of Human Evolution … even as the AshkeNAZI of conquered Palestine are prevalently redefining the borders of their own mountain war-G_d's empire by extending the boundaries of "Holy" property to encompass the entire planet for themselves.
READ IT, It's all there in the Talmud.
DanD

I fully agree with some that sees the grealing fu… ovbivousness in the angle almoust everone is using and the "semtic" is making me pissed. There is absolutly NO, and I mean NO legitimasy what so ever, behind anything Israel does, and what the INFACT are doing against another land, like Palestina. This are the fu… facts, no drivel about shaddowsonzes in regading international regulations/lwas what so fu.. ever, because there is NO missunderstanding or drivel about uncertaintis, non and do not insult us with retorical srivel about Rights in any fu,. aspect regarding ivansion, ocupation, exermination and final ethnic clensing.

Thats whats been going on for 7 decades and I amd angry when I read, articles that portrays this as a war, or intervention, this is neither, this is slaughter of people, packed into a open prison camp, a consentration camp, the exact way the USA exterminated the indiginous americans. And you have any doubth about the humanism from the insane leaders of the worst and biggest terrorstate even invented and continues to operate, the USA. Israel is alowed to do what ever they pleas, because of theor gardian angel, the Lord of peace and drones, the everlighning and shining Obamalama.

What is THE problem is that NOBODY have the fu… balls to stand up against the lunatics in charge, and what we get is drivel.. What I read is drivel, comments are even more moistered with drooling idiots tales about the religions and historical events, and nobody of them is correct and all are lying. All the time. Be crystal clear, as I am, because despite all the diluted mud thrown at us/me, I know I am 100% right all the time. You know it, they know it, and I know it. With all due respect. peace!

“The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” Nelson Mandela

I can understand Humanity's frustration. But go back to the negotiating table for what? To waste another decade in lopsided gun-to-head talks?

Palestinians should refuse any more 'negotiations' until the UN enforces international law and its own numerous resolutions and forces Israel back behind internationally recognized borders, or preferably the 1947 Partition borders. That is the starting line.

Otherwise Palestinians will simply find themselves giving away even more of their rights and entitlements. They should certainly not engage in negotiations while Israel's occupation jackboot is on their neck. Justice first. It's a pipe-dream of course. But the high and mighty international community must be baited and teased with it by civil society around the globe showing disgust for the wimps and pansies who call themselves world leaders.

Israel was created on terrorism, has the british and the american forgotten, they blew up planes and destroyed navy ships killing scores of soldiers. Their prime minister was a wanted war criminal by the international community, infact they were the 1st terrorist organisation in the middle east.

They've breached an endless list of UN resolutions, longer than any country put together. When they were finally gifted a piece of land for them to call home, they didn't stop there. Over the years with the help of the british, americans together with the famous UN, they gradually swallowed the rest of Palestine in the process destroying villages after villages and livelihood, killing inhabitants. They have not finnished until all is taken. The UN, the hague and Geneva convention are a bunch a crooks that was setup to serve the israelis purpose. They might as well call the Gaza strip the New Auschwitz and the IDF as the new SS of israel.

I have seen T-shirt worn by Israeli soldiers with a Palestinian target in sight such as children, elderly and even pregnant women written "shoot 2 kill."

Nutteryahu stated that Hamas are killing israeli children lauching dodgy home made rockets from crowded area. I mean they have forcibly pushed Palestinians to a tiny corner where there's hardly any space to breathe, a SLUM which is why it is referred to as a STRIP by the so called international community whoever they are. Where do they fight israel, thay launch rockets blindly into the air which has so far killed 3 israellis as compared to the IDF that has state of the ART military hardware with which they cowardly hunt anyone they don't like and shoot indisciminately in their favorite CROWDED area causing maximum impact the more the dead the better specially if there are youngters among the DEAD.

Hasn't anyone noticed that after every mayhem israel would be in wait until gaza is back on their feet then they will come back and reep carnage again and again. Gaza simply cannot be allowed to prosper and be on equal par with the rest of the world because they simply aren't human enough in the eyes of the international community whoever they are that is. It is believed that majority of israelis have someone who has perished in a nazi camps. They are a people who have seen and stared DEATH in the face in the most horrid and brutal way, many lost young, old and loved ones. So they are a people who know the horror of distruction YET in this modern day and time they are doing it to another defenceless nation whom they have cornered into a tiny HELL hole and being pounded upon, I call that COWARDICE.

As for any palestinian factions that exist, they are no better until they settle their stupid EGOS and differences and unite as PALESTINIANS, they'll always be @ the receiving end.